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Quick tip for draping fabric. Instead of struggling with a yard of fabric get your tape and do some math and see how much fabric you need.
For this top I split the front and back into their own blocks and had one 16×12 and one 15×12, that way I have a little wiggle room
Remember to wet and iron your cotton so it stays nice and flat
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Finished draping the bodice of the sherbet jacket. I'll have to wait until I can get help to do the sleeves. But! I can move on to the first mockup of the bodice!
Sometimes when you drape something, adjacent pieces end up with edges that don't match up very well, especially corset type patterns. Below is a low waist and hips pattern I just draped. You can see how the vertical edges look awkward and don't match very well.
So what you can do is trace a piece, and lay the adjacent piece on top (the way you would sew them), and trace its edge too. So now you can really see how awkward this would be to sew.
Now split the difference and draw a new edge (orange line below) right in the middle of the two. This is the new edge. Do this to all of the pieces.
They will now match perfectly when you sew them, and theoretically, their sum measurement has not changed.
Here are the pieces before and after equalizing the seams:
Pet en l'air - Part one - Adventures in pattern draping
I've finally pulled myself together and started to work on my pet en l'air. Today I made my first try ever at pattern draping. I'm used to do flat drafting but it is so darn hard with 18th century garments. So I decidedt o give it a go and damn it was fun and quick! Please allow me to introduce to you my dress dummy, monsieur Valmont. He is a strange thing, it is like something between a man and a woman in body shape. But he has my measurements (although he has the most of his body mass in his back muscles and I have mine in my boobs). I'm going to make him a companion that are my exact body double but until I actually get around doing it, Valmont will have to stand being a cross dresser. Anyway I put my stays on Valmont and tighten them to the measurements I know is comfortable for me. Then I pinned some muslin to the stays and started pinning, smoothing and pinning and drawing. Here are the result: Front: And back: I made a slanted line at CB so I can make a lacing there. The first 4-5 cm will be stitched close and the rest will be open. I think I will put some synthetic whale bone around the opening to strengthen it a bit. Tomorrow night I aim at taking the pieces of Valmont and clean up all lines and to make a full bodice mock up. If the bodice fits I can start on the sleeves. /L
Soooo much work....
I made the pocket hoops first. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get my hands on steel boning at the time and had to use the plastic craft store stuff. The dress is so heavy that I have to line them with cardboard for the full effect.
(note: my poor dress form couldn’t handle the weight, either- the gown is a good 10 lbs. That is why the gown pools at the bottom in the pictures and the hips aren’t on full display.)
All of the lace is hand-dyed and fully beaded and there is matching bead work on the trim. The skirt was my first attempt at draping and isn’t exactly period but works well so I didn’t make another.
The robe closes at the stomacher (the center lace piece) with eye hooks on each side. I based the pattern off of a model pictured in Janet Arnold’s Patterns of Fashion I.
Not pictured is a matching cream-colored wool and satin cape.
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More pattern making.
